The Portuguese royal family, led by King Dom João VI, fled from Napoleon's army and reestablished its kingdom in Brazil, first in Salvador and later in Rio de Janeiro. Dom João returned to Portugal in 1821, leaving his son Dom Pedro I as regent. Pedro I declared Brazil's ...
During the invasion of Portugal (1807), the Portuguese royal family fled to Brazil, establishing Rio de Janeiro as the de facto capital of Portugal. From Brazil, the Portuguese king João VI ruled his trans-Atlantic empire for 13 years. The capital’s move to Rio de Janeiro accentuated ...
Featuring some 130 works, 'Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism' is on view at the Royal Academy in London until April 21.
In 1757, theTupilanguage was banned by royal decree, although the language had already been overwhelmed by Portuguese spoken by the vast majority of immigrants that arrived from Portugal. When the Jesuits were expelled in the year 1759, Portuguese became thelingua franca, or language of the count...
“époque” that shaped French history. Inspired by the controversy behind her time in the French Court and the lavish lifestyle led by the last generation of the French Royal Family’s, theMarie Antoinette Mirrorrepresents the importance given to greatness and extravagance, from its size to ...
Sauer was established in 1941 by Jules Sauer, the co-CEO’s grandfather, who fled Europe during World War I to Brazil and began working with precious gemstones like emeralds, tourmalines and amethyst, and developed unique carving methods that are still used by the brand today. “We always ...
The Gracies have since turned the sport into a remarkable family empire. Arguably the most successful has been Helio Gracie’s oldest son Rorion, who launched the Ultimate Fighting Championship or UFC in the US in the 1990s, kicking off today’s hugely popular, multi-million dollar MMA industr...
The teacup Yorkshire Terrier, while considered a purebred today, initially wasn’t. Their original parents, the Clydesdale and now-extinct Paisley terriers,… Flat-Coated Retriever Forever young might be the best way to describe what the American Kennel Club calls the “Peter Pan of the… ...
All this vastness, almost deserted today, will give way to productive work". However, Santa-Anna Nery [35] warned of the need to study the Amazon before European exploration: "Civilization is sometimes synonymous with destruction. Man, in mastering Nature, mutilates it. He exterminates to ...
The data contained in this book served as the primary source of information on Brazilian biodiversity until the beginning of 19th century, when the Portuguese royal family moved to Rio de Janeiro, fleeing from Napoleon Bonaparte׳s invasion of their home country. The nineteenth century is marked...